| This article provides detailed information on | | | | is more inclined to figure work and plucking. |
| Classical Guitar Tablatures. | | | | Therefore, these classical guitar tablatures |
| | | | are more meticulously structured and they are |
| A classical guitar is slightly different in | | | | much more complex and intertwined with more |
| shape from an ordinary guitar (i.e. rhythm | | | | uses of notes (i.e. C, Bb, G, A, F, F#, etc) |
| guitar, bass guitar, Hawaiian guitar, etc.) | | | | than others.If we track back the history of |
| The fret board, also known as the neck of the | | | | tablatures, they have been used in the |
| guitar, is slightly broader than that of | | | | Western world for the last six centuries. |
| other guitars. As a result the strings are | | | | They were mostly a horizontal grid read from |
| more distanced from each other. The guitarist | | | | left to right with letters and numbers |
| must stretch his fingers a bit more than when | | | | written over them signifying the construction |
| he is playing an acoustic or an electric | | | | of pitches, and rhythmic signs above. Then by |
| guitar. When it comes to the string, the | | | | the 17th century various systems of |
| difference is that a classical guitar uses | | | | tablatures existed in Germany, Italy, Spain |
| nylon strings instead of metal ones, making | | | | and France. Nowadays tablatures, guitar tabs |
| for a mellower sound.Classical guitars are | | | | in particular, have vertical lines which |
| based on the classical mode of music and | | | | represent the strings of the guitar (no |
| follow classically oriented instructions. But | | | | matter what kind of guitar it is), horizontal |
| the modern day guitar tablatures follow a | | | | lines for the frets, and dots signifying the |
| slightly different course from that of | | | | position of the figures. |
| classical notations. Playing classical guitar | | | | |